Siege Beast

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This creature resembles a dinosaur-like combination of an enormous crocodile with a four-horned bull's head. It's wrinkly, over-sized skin is reddish-brown and covered from neck to tail with numerous lumpy bulbs. From the center of its back extends a large, tube-like appendage that sways back and forth and leaks out a plume of black smoke from within the beast.

Siege Beast (CR 9)

• Usually N Large magical beast (fire)
• Init -1; Senses low-light vision; Listen, Spot
• Languages: none

• AC 18, touch 8, flat-footed 18
  • (-1 size, -1 Dex, +10 natural)
• hp 138 (12 HD); regeneration 5
• Immune: fire
• Resistance: sonic 10; SR +4 on saves against evocation magic
• Fort +#, Ref +, Will +
• Weakness: vulnerability to cold

• Speed 20 ft.
• Melee gore, tail slap
• Ranged fire stones (1d6, +1d6 fire
• Space # ft.; Reach # ft.
• Base Atk +##; Grp +##
• Atk Options (power attack, combat expertise, smite evil)
• Special Actions fireball, roar

• Abilities Str 23, Dex 8, Con 22, Int 3, Wis 14, Cha 6
• SQ fire nodules, fire subtype
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Regeneration (Ex): The siege beast takes normal damage from cold attacks.

Fire Stones (Ex/Su): At close range a siege beast can fire a barrage of flaming stone pellets from its siege port. These are treated as sling stones (large size) with a range increment of 30 feet and that have the flaming burst ability, dealing +1d6 fire damage per hit and an additional +1d10 fire damage on a critical hit. Only the flaming burst part of this ability is considered a supernatural effect, so in an anti-magic field, the siege beast could still inflict normal damage with its fire stones.

Fireball (Su): The ability for which this beast is named, every 1d4 rounds a siege beast can launch a globule of molten flame up to a range of 600 feet that explodes in a 20-foot radius for 10d6 points of fire damage. A Reflex save (DC 19) reduces the damage by half. The save DC is Constitution-based.

Roar (Su): The siege beast's roar can cause fear...

Fire Nodules (Ex): The lumps covering the siege beasts hide are where it stores its explosive, flaming fuel. A weapon attack that hits a siege beast causes a small fiery explosion in a 5-foot radius that deals 3d6 points of fire damage (this radius only emanates from the square that was actually struck). If the attack was a melee attack, then the attacker gets no saving throw, but any other creature in the radius can make a Reflex save (DC 19) for half damage. The save DC is Constitution-based.

Description clumsy in melee, cannot use its tail and gore attack against the same target (both only if facing multiple foes). Stores

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